Create an App
Everything starts on the Create tab, in the field that reads Search apps or paste a web address.
Start from an address or the gallery
- Paste an address to open its app page. A bare host such as
example.comgetshttps://added. On Mac a pasted address opens at once, and a typed one opens with Return or Continue. - Type a name to search the gallery, then click a site or press Return for the best match.
- If the address belongs to a site in the gallery, Pake opens that site's tuned page with your address filled in.
Pake looks up the site while you type, then fills in the page title as the name and the site's icon, unless you already typed a name.
Name, address and icon
- Name: the app's name in the Dock, Finder or the Start menu.
- Address (URL on Windows): an
httporhttpsaddress. A green check means it is valid. - Icon: the site's icon by default. Click Choose… or drop an image on the row to use your own, and Remove to go back. When a site has no icon, Pake draws a letter icon.
| Icon formats | |
|---|---|
| Mac | PNG, JPEG, ICO, ICNS, TIFF, WebP |
| Windows | PNG, JPEG, ICO, BMP, GIF, WebP, TIFF |
Window
| Option | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Size (Mac), Window size (Windows) | The window's starting width and height, each between 200 and 10000 | 1200 × 780 |
| Hide title bar | Lets the page run up to the top edge. When off, the title bar takes the page's color. Mac only | Off |
| Dark window | Darkens the title bar and window frame, not the page itself | Off |
| Always on top | Keeps the window above other windows | Off |
| Multiple windows | Lets you open more than one window of the app | Off |
Behavior
| Option | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Hide on close | Closing the window keeps the app running. On Windows the app stays in the tray, so this also turns on the tray icon | On for Mac, off for Windows |
| Menu bar icon (Mac), Tray icon (Windows) | Shows an icon in the menu bar or system tray | Off |
| Find in page | Adds page search to the app | Off |
| Incognito | Starts each session clean, so the app keeps no sign-ins, cookies or site data | Off |
| Open new windows in the app | Opens links that ask for a new window inside the app instead of the browser, which some sign-in pop-ups need on Windows | Off |
Advanced
Open Advanced for options most sites never need:
- User agent: how the app identifies itself to the site. Empty uses the Safari user agent on Mac and the Chrome user agent on Windows.
- Internal URL regex: links that match this regular expression stay in the app, and other links open in your browser.
- Inject CSS and Inject JavaScript: your own styles and scripts, applied to every page the app opens.
Build the app
Click Create App. Pake prepares the app, generates the icon, writes the settings and installs it, which takes a few seconds. When it finishes, App Created offers Open, Show in Finder or Show in Explorer, and Done.
- If an app with the same name is already installed, Pake asks before replacing it, and quits or closes it first when it is running.
- If the install fails, the previous copy stays in place.
- Without a license, each new app uses one of your free apps. See License.